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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.931.5
Input PriceFree$0.20/M
Output PriceFree$1.25/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output32,768128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.534.2
eqbench70.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 139 138
Code Review 140 138
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 141 141
Bug Fixing 144 142
Unit Test Generation 129 128
Code Documentation 134 134
Regex Writing 125 123
CI/CD Pipelines 125 124
Frontend Component Design 128 126
Data Analysis 132 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 133 132
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 132
Long-Document Summarization 143 143
Short-Form Summarization 126 125
Blog Post Writing 127 126

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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